Arlo & Alice Quit

PEOPLE

November 26, 1987

You can`t get anything you want at Alice`s Restaurant anymore. And Arlo Guthrie says he is going to quit singing Alice`s Restaurant, the rambling song about his arrest in Stockbridge, Mass., on Thanksgiving Day 20 years ago. To make matters worse, Alice Brock is out of the restaurant business. ``I don`t want my own restaurant -- too much aggravation,`` she said. ``Nobody thinks of it as a good profession, so it`s hard to get good help.``

Guthrie says he plans to perform Alice`s Restaurant Saturday night at Carnegie Hall in New York and then put it in storage. ``I won`t do it again for about 10 years,`` he said, ``mostly because it eats up too much time during the concert.``

Alice now spends her time painting stones she finds on Cape Cod beaches and selling them by mail order.

DUTY DANCING

Dancer Rudolf Nureyev will be taking it to the streets next spring.

The ballet dancer will perform outside the new Koger Center for the Arts on April 19, University of South Carolina officials said on Tuesday.

Nureyev`s evening appearance with a troupe of six dancers is planned as a ``special pre-opening performance`` for the center, which will not be completed until the end of 1988, said Thomas Stepp, center director.

HAHN STANDS ACCUSED

Watch for the lawsuits to start flying if Penthouse puts out its January issue with some wild accusations about Jessica Hahn. Dominic Barbara, Hahn`s lawyer, says he will sue if the magazine prints a story saying Hahn, the woman in the middle of the Jim Bakker PTL sex scandal, worked as a prostitute in a Long Island brothel in 1977 and 1978. The magazine quote`s the brothel`s madam as saying, ``There is nothing innocent about this girl.`` Hahn has said that she was a virgin when Bakker had sex with her in 1980.

ROBERTS GETS CORNEA

Television evangelist Oral Roberts has received a corneal transplant and is recovering at his Tulsa, Okla., home, a spokesman said.

James Winslow said the evangelist received a new cornea for his left eye in an outpatient procedure on Monday at City of Faith Medical and Research Center.

Winslow said the cornea, the transparent outer layer of the eye, had begun to deteriorate during the past few years. Roberts must wear a patch over the eye until it heals, and will restrict activities during his recovery, which should take about a week, Winslow said.

BRIEFLY SPEAKING

-- Sammy Davis Jr., 62, is out of the hospital after undergoing oral surgery last week. Davis underwent what was described as a minor procedure but stayed in Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles for a couple of days just to be cautious.

-- Vanna White fans started lining up as early as 3 a.m. for the Wheel of Fortune star`s appearance at a Houston supermarket. White wore a short, tight black dress on Tuesday, which was declared Vanna White Day by Mayor Kathy Whitmire. She mingled with the fans, accepted a vanilla sheet cake made to resemble her and answered questions from the crowd. One query was about her measurements and White candidly announced that they are 36-24-34.